The New Food Doc, Fed Up, Got Us Thinking - Here's a Quick Download

If you're someone who eats food (so, everyone), you should probably pay attention to the new food documentary making waves in the industry this week. Fed Up, the brain-child of Katie Couric and Laurie David (who brought us An Inconvenient Truth), goes head-to-head with the biggest public health crisis of our time — the growing obesity rate.

Toggling between science-backed data, expert input and real-life stories from children like 12-year-old, 212 pound Maggie Valentine, who are struggling with obesity, Fed Up has a very clear message: we're approaching the whole obesity epidemic all wrong. The real culprit behind it all? Sugar.

A staggering claim: out of over 600,000 food products in a single grocery store, over 80% of them contain added sugar. Fed Up even sites studies that claim the brain lights up when consuming sugar the same way it does with cocaine-and the need for sugar is 8x stronger. Scary stuff!

Catch the movie in theaters now-you may even be inspired to take the Fed Up Challenge and quit sugar for ten days.